Days of Our Lives – Next Week (Nov 24–28): 3 Explosive Shockers! Belle & Chad’s Date? Stefano Rising
Next week on Days of Our Lives, Salem is on the edge of combustion as buried memories resurface, forbidden romances spark to life, and an unthinkable resurrection rumor barrels toward reality. From Cat’s disturbing flashbacks to EJ’s unraveling past, from the DeMera legacy rising from its ashes to Belle and Chad tiptoeing toward a second chance, November 24–28 promises a storm of drama that will redraw the emotional map of almost every major family in town. Three huge shockers are about to land — and nothing in Salem will look the same afterward.
🔥 SHOCKER #1 – Cat’s Lost Memories Ignite a Massive Mystery
Cat Green’s world begins to tilt when her long-buried, fragmented memories refuse to stay silent. All week, we see her grappling with flashes of a haunting scene: herself sitting beside an unconscious man wrapped entirely in white bandages, reading Wuthering Heights aloud as though clinging to a ghost. His face was obscured, hidden beneath layers of medical dressing — anonymous, vulnerable, and deeply important.
But the real bombshell?
Cat remembers someone else in that room: Sami Brady, standing at the bedside of the bandaged patient as if guarding a secret too dangerous to expose.
As these memories sharpen, Cat finds herself torn between fear and duty. Will she finally tell EJ the truth about what she witnessed in that hospital in Italy, or keep protecting a secret that grows more dangerous with each passing day?
Her silence becomes even riskier when Andrew Donovan drops a devastating confirmation:
Both Cat and EJ were recovering patients in the same secluded Italian facility — at the same time.
A detail neither of them understood until Andrew pieced it together.
This revelation cracks open a mystery that may reframe everything Salem thought it knew about EJ’s disappearance, recovery, and the people involved in saving — or manipulating — him.
Even EJ himself begins remembering fragments: a woman’s voice softly reading him passages from Wuthering Heights while he fought to stay alive. Slowly, painfully, he realizes that the voice might have been Cat’s.
And when the truth finally hits him — that she, a near-stranger, cared for him at his most vulnerable moment — EJ is left shocked, humbled, and suspicious. Was Cat helping him… or was she placed there as part of something darker?
A reckoning between Cat and EJ is inevitable — and when these two compare memories, they may uncover a plot stretching far beyond either of them.
🔥 SHOCKER #2 – Stefano DeMera: The Phoenix May Rise Again
Salem’s rumor mill reaches a fever pitch as whispers of Stefano DeMera’s return circulate with unnerving consistency. For a town that’s seen the impossible happen more times than it can count, even this feels extreme — and yet strangely believable.
The DeMeras sense something shifting. The family’s darkest legacy has begun to stir.
Dmitri von Leuschner’s name keeps surfacing — and not by accident. Salem insiders speculate that he may be connected to a highly classified hospital operation where a locked crate was recently delivered under military-level security. No one seems to know what — or who — is inside.
But the wildest theory spreading through Salem’s underground circles is this:
Dmitri may become the new vessel for Stefano’s memories.
Could the Phoenix rise again through another man’s body?
Or has the DeMera patriarch somehow survived and is being secretly revived?
EJ’s role in this is even more jaw-dropping.
Behind closed doors, EJ is allegedly orchestrating a massive, expensive, covert operation with Quinn von Leuschner. They are funneling enormous resources into something no one will explain, all under the guise of “family preservation.”
What EJ wants is simple:
to restore the DeMera dynasty — even if it means violating every moral line left in Salem.
His loyalty to Stefano has always been complicated. But next week, we see just how far he is truly willing to go. The hints, the secrets, the locked medical rooms, the imported crates…
Something monumental is coming.
And if Stefano rises again, Salem may never recover.
🔥 SHOCKER #3 – Belle and Chad’s Unexpected Date Reinvents an Old Spark
While danger brews across town, a gentler storyline unfolds — one that may reshape the emotional lives of two beloved characters.
Belle Brady and Chad DiMera, once drawn to each other long ago, are matched by the Salem Singles dating app. It’s an algorithmic accident that quickly proves fate has a sense of humor.
The spark between them never fully died — it simply waited.
Belle and Chad agree to meet, not as tortured exes or grieving parents, but as two people giving themselves permission to feel something new. They set low expectations, promising to keep the night simple, pressure-free, and honest.
But even before the date begins, chemistry simmers beneath the surface.
Belle sees a softness in Chad that grief hasn’t entirely erased. Chad sees in Belle a steadiness and warmth he didn’t realize he still craved.
Their dinner promises possibilities neither expected — but not everyone in Salem is ready to let Chad move forward.
Jennifer Horton DiMera becomes an immediate obstacle.
She fears Chad isn’t emotionally ready to balance new love with fatherhood, and she suspects his feelings for Cat Green have not been fully resolved. Her worry turns to resolve, and next week she takes her most drastic step yet:
Jennifer threatens to move Thomas and Charlotte out of state.
Her ultimatum lands hard — a father desperate for stability, a woman convinced she’s protecting the children, and a budding romance suddenly weighed down by consequences neither Belle nor Chad saw coming.
Other Explosive Developments in Salem
Salem is a hive of chaos as several secondary storylines collide with the bigger arcs:
• Stephanie Johnson’s life is in danger
A terrifying stalker becomes more aggressive, determined to eliminate Alex Kiriakis and “save” Stephanie from him. Production keeps the stalker hidden, fueling wild theories about the culprit’s identity.
• Steve and Kayla enjoy peace — but danger lurks
Their quiet moments of romance are heartbreakingly contrasted with the threat looming just out of sight. The truth will shatter them when it finally hits.
• Philip and Gabi’s flirtation becomes a ticking time bomb
Trivia night turns surprisingly romantic, but Gabi’s secret scheme with Tony — sabotaging Titan from within — could destroy Philip the moment he learns of her betrayal.
The consequences will be deadly for their relationship… and possibly for Titan itself.
A Week That Reshapes Salem
From Cat and EJ’s shared trauma, to the possible resurrection of Stefano, to Belle and Chad’s rekindled hope for love, Salem is heading toward one of its most explosive weeks in recent memory.
Secrets long buried return to the surface.
New alliances spark where old wounds exist.
Darkness creeps around the edges of every story.
Next week, every corner of town feels moments away from implosion — and every character is standing on the edge of a life-changing revelation.
Get ready.
Salem is about to erupt.